Art: Spires That Soar

It is the first thing that the visitor sees as his car approaches the
new Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs, and it remains the
dominating structure for as long as the visitor stays. The glistening
spires, looming dramatically over the flat glass rectangles of the rest
of the campus, seem almost transparent to the sun, so light that their
tips look as if they were brushing the sky. No one can remain
indifferent to the Air Force Academy Chapel: to some it has an awesome
grace, to others a forbidding inhumanity (see color). This sort of
controversy suits 42-year-old Architect...